The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-03-26

New York IL said TO be the third Gen
man city in the world.
, Germany has 4 population Of 46, $40.
600. against As. 2S4, 900 BY the census Q
1880.
The chewing gum yearly nsed By
, certain family Of eight persons in Min
pesota costs $3.50.
! The average cost per scholar OF tn
! textbooks in the South Carolina schools
} 10 e9.46 = year.
A sailors chapel 10 to be built in New
; York by money left by w. H Wander
bilt for that purpose.
It is said by q competent authority
that men spend more money for hata
than women do for bonnets.
An Arkansas man whitfield bullet
out Of a plug of tobacco and shot II
through the body Of = wildcat
The homestake Mining Company. Of
the Black Hills, d. T., Is the largest in
the world, and employs 5000 men.
Door-knocks of the old-fashioned kind
are once more appearing on the doors
of fashionable New York residences.
Several Alabama papers want the
state legislature 10 pass q law requiring
every man to produce tax receipt be-
fore voting.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Presbytery of Erie raised $1,000
more for missions in the past year than
in the one previous.
At Atlanta. Ga. has been formed an
association of young ladies who are
sworn to do everything in their power
to abolish the ''parlor-beau" fashion.
The editor of Georgia paper says
liberty is always pictured as woman
because liberty to survive must be vigil
ant and there is no blind side to
woman.
The 600 French army cats whose duty
it is to catch mice in the clothing
storc-houses. are to have their ratiOns
reduced, since they have become too fat
and lazy.
Parties will shortly engage in excava-
ting lands about White Plains. N. Y,
in search of treasures that are supposed
to have been buried there years and
years ago.
The Indian women of the Lower
Brule agency have their weekly sewing
circle. interchange local news and tell
stories about absent sisters, just like
white women.
A citizen of Rockland. Me-, has q
brierwoOd pipe which he found embed
ded in large mass of salt Mt the bot
tom of one of the water tanks of the
old frigate Sabine.
The Boston Pilot thinks that the first
dealer in any staple commodity who
makes the announcement mo English
goods sold here" will find himself over
whelmed by surprising run of trade.
Two lighthouse keepers on the North
Carolina coast quarreled about the
color of the sea and did not exchange
another word for three months, when
both were discharged by the govern
ment
An artists idea of desolation-the
miners deserted cabins in places near
Pittsburg where old mines or oil wells
have been abandoned. doors wide
open, window panes broken. and rooms
empty.
A Minnesota man SAYS that Indians
don't get drunk because they like
liquor, but because they think it an
honor. If this is true, the average red /,
man takes great pains to disguise his
dislike for fire-water.
In Wyoming county. New York. the
fruit evaporating industry has COM
pletely died out For awhile much /
money was made in the business. but SO |
many people went into it that decline |
was Inevitable.
In 1880 there were CPS Indians in !
Maine. of whom 3l2 were males and
BIB females. Every able-bodied Indian
in the state has dog. and every In
dian who is not able-bodied has two,
says the Lewiston Journal.
At the head of Skagit river. in. Cali
Fo-nia, forest lies buried beneath
about seventy feet Of earth. The wood
is in good state of preservation.
while on the surface above immense
trees. hundreds Of years old, are
growing.
Recently farmer on the Malad.
Idaho, named James Burnett, left three
Of his children, the eldest twelve wears
d age. to guard vegetable patch
against rabbits, when the children were
attacked by coyotes and the two young
vt killed.
As family man David Wright. COL
'red. of Columbia City. Fla, can hardly
'e surpassed. He is the father Of
twenty-five children. most of them
living. and his present wife is the
mother OF twenty-seven children, nine
cen OF whom are living.
''Incontaminatis fulget honoribus'
which being interpreted means he
hines with untarnished honors) is the
ign OF bootblack boys stand in an
'lley of Pemberton square in Boston.
The lad does good business with law
ers who pass his place.
Some OF the officers employed in
aking the census of the Maori popula-
ion of New Zealand reported that
vhere marriages between persons be-
onging to distinct tribes take place the
Progeny are both numerous and
ealthy. Where members of the same
ribe intermarry the reverse is almost
lways the case.
The division of labor and improved
machinery are doing away with the
borough learning of trades When
he present generation of shoemakers
nd blacksmiths are dead 1t will be
ard work 10 find a man who can
make complete boot or make . horse
hoe and nails and then shoe the horse
roperly.